[PATCH v1 08/41] perf pmu-events: Pass e_machine to find_core_*_table()

From: Ian Rogers

Date: Tue Nov 03 2026 - 18:48:49 EST


find_core_events_table() and find_core_metrics_table() found tables by
an architecture name, such as from perf_env__arch(), that has to match
the pmu-events architecture directory name, for example "riscv" rather
than the "riscv64" from uname.

Instead find tables by the ELF machine of the CPUID's architecture,
using the e_machine recorded in struct pmu_events_map. The test and
common tables are found with EM_NONE.

Signed-off-by: Ian Rogers <irogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/pmu-events/empty-pmu-events.c | 10 ++++++----
tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py | 10 ++++++----
tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h | 9 +++++++--
tools/perf/tests/expand-cgroup.c | 3 ++-
tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c | 3 ++-
tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c | 7 ++++---
tools/perf/util/tool_pmu.c | 3 ++-
7 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/empty-pmu-events.c b/tools/perf/pmu-events/empty-pmu-events.c
index 7428ffd4d70c..eba5446520c4 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/empty-pmu-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/empty-pmu-events.c
@@ -5927,23 +5927,25 @@ const struct pmu_metrics_table *pmu_metrics_table__default(void)
return NULL;
}

-const struct pmu_events_table *find_core_events_table(const char *arch, const char *cpuid)
+const struct pmu_events_table *find_core_events_table(uint16_t e_machine, const char *cpuid)
{
for (const struct pmu_events_map *tables = &pmu_events_map[0];
tables->arch;
tables++) {
- if (!strcmp(tables->arch, arch) && !strcmp_cpuid_str(tables->cpuid, cpuid))
+ if (pmu_events_map__e_machine_matches(tables, e_machine) &&
+ !strcmp_cpuid_str(tables->cpuid, cpuid))
return &tables->event_table;
}
return NULL;
}

-const struct pmu_metrics_table *find_core_metrics_table(const char *arch, const char *cpuid)
+const struct pmu_metrics_table *find_core_metrics_table(uint16_t e_machine, const char *cpuid)
{
for (const struct pmu_events_map *tables = &pmu_events_map[0];
tables->arch;
tables++) {
- if (!strcmp(tables->arch, arch) && !strcmp_cpuid_str(tables->cpuid, cpuid))
+ if (pmu_events_map__e_machine_matches(tables, e_machine) &&
+ !strcmp_cpuid_str(tables->cpuid, cpuid))
return &tables->metric_table;
}
return NULL;
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py
index db1b4749aec3..fc3de5fbda27 100755
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/jevents.py
@@ -1345,23 +1345,25 @@ const struct pmu_metrics_table *pmu_metrics_table__default(void)
\treturn NULL;
}

-const struct pmu_events_table *find_core_events_table(const char *arch, const char *cpuid)
+const struct pmu_events_table *find_core_events_table(uint16_t e_machine, const char *cpuid)
{
\tfor (const struct pmu_events_map *tables = &pmu_events_map[0];
\t tables->arch;
\t tables++) {
-\t\tif (!strcmp(tables->arch, arch) && !strcmp_cpuid_str(tables->cpuid, cpuid))
+\t\tif (pmu_events_map__e_machine_matches(tables, e_machine) &&
+\t\t !strcmp_cpuid_str(tables->cpuid, cpuid))
\t\t\treturn &tables->event_table;
\t}
\treturn NULL;
}

-const struct pmu_metrics_table *find_core_metrics_table(const char *arch, const char *cpuid)
+const struct pmu_metrics_table *find_core_metrics_table(uint16_t e_machine, const char *cpuid)
{
\tfor (const struct pmu_events_map *tables = &pmu_events_map[0];
\t tables->arch;
\t tables++) {
-\t\tif (!strcmp(tables->arch, arch) && !strcmp_cpuid_str(tables->cpuid, cpuid))
+\t\tif (pmu_events_map__e_machine_matches(tables, e_machine) &&
+\t\t !strcmp_cpuid_str(tables->cpuid, cpuid))
\t\t\treturn &tables->metric_table;
\t}
\treturn NULL;
diff --git a/tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h b/tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h
index cb55c9fbca43..c3f645c97ccd 100644
--- a/tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h
+++ b/tools/perf/pmu-events/pmu-events.h
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@

#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stddef.h>
+#include <stdint.h>

struct perf_pmu;

@@ -134,8 +135,12 @@ const struct pmu_events_table *perf_pmu__find_events_table(struct perf_pmu *pmu)
const struct pmu_events_table *perf_pmu__default_core_events_table(void);
const struct pmu_metrics_table *pmu_metrics_table__find(void);
const struct pmu_metrics_table *pmu_metrics_table__default(void);
-const struct pmu_events_table *find_core_events_table(const char *arch, const char *cpuid);
-const struct pmu_metrics_table *find_core_metrics_table(const char *arch, const char *cpuid);
+/*
+ * Find the core events or metrics table for a CPUID of the architecture with
+ * ELF machine @e_machine. The test and common tables use EM_NONE.
+ */
+const struct pmu_events_table *find_core_events_table(uint16_t e_machine, const char *cpuid);
+const struct pmu_metrics_table *find_core_metrics_table(uint16_t e_machine, const char *cpuid);
int pmu_for_each_core_event(pmu_event_iter_fn fn, void *data);
int pmu_for_each_core_metric(pmu_metric_iter_fn fn, void *data);

diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/expand-cgroup.c b/tools/perf/tests/expand-cgroup.c
index 04d62611766a..f5e092e8bb48 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/expand-cgroup.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/expand-cgroup.c
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
#include "pfm.h"
#include "target.h"
#include <subcmd/parse-options.h>
+#include <elf.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
@@ -178,7 +179,7 @@ static int expand_metric_events(void)
evlist = evlist__new();
TEST_ASSERT_VAL("failed to get evlist", evlist);

- pme_test = find_core_metrics_table("testarch", "testcpu");
+ pme_test = find_core_metrics_table(EM_NONE, "testcpu");
ret = metricgroup__parse_groups_test(evlist, pme_test, metric_str,
/*cputype_filter=*/false);
if (ret < 0) {
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c b/tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c
index 872d9a7aa72f..6f91e64a4123 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/parse-metric.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <elf.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <perf/cpumap.h>
@@ -91,7 +92,7 @@ static int __compute_metric(const char *name, struct value *vals,
perf_evlist__set_maps(evlist__core(evlist), cpus, NULL);

/* Parse the metric into metric_events list. */
- pme_test = find_core_metrics_table("testarch", "testcpu");
+ pme_test = find_core_metrics_table(EM_NONE, "testcpu");
err = metricgroup__parse_groups_test(evlist, pme_test, name,
/*cputype_filter=*/false);
if (err)
diff --git a/tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c b/tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c
index cb0c2b05c1e8..8e82f7af2aa6 100644
--- a/tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c
+++ b/tools/perf/tests/pmu-events.c
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
#include "pmu.h"
#include "pmus.h"
#include "tests.h"
+#include <elf.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <linux/kernel.h>
@@ -449,7 +450,7 @@ static int test__pmu_event_table(struct test_suite *test __maybe_unused,
{
const struct pmu_events_table *sys_event_table =
find_sys_events_table("pmu_events__test_soc_sys");
- const struct pmu_events_table *table = find_core_events_table("testarch", "testcpu");
+ const struct pmu_events_table *table = find_core_events_table(EM_NONE, "testcpu");
int map_events = 0, expected_events, err;

/* ignore 3x sentinels */
@@ -504,7 +505,7 @@ static int __test_core_pmu_event_aliases(const char *pmu_name, int *count)
struct perf_pmu_test_event const **test_event_table;
struct perf_pmu *pmu;
int res = 0;
- const struct pmu_events_table *table = find_core_events_table("testarch", "testcpu");
+ const struct pmu_events_table *table = find_core_events_table(EM_NONE, "testcpu");

if (!table)
return -1;
@@ -559,7 +560,7 @@ static int __test_uncore_pmu_event_aliases(struct perf_pmu_test_pmu *test_pmu)
const struct pmu_events_table *events_table;
int res = 0;

- events_table = find_core_events_table("testarch", "testcpu");
+ events_table = find_core_events_table(EM_NONE, "testcpu");
if (!events_table)
return -1;

diff --git a/tools/perf/util/tool_pmu.c b/tools/perf/util/tool_pmu.c
index 6054d5d5aece..d09361999b82 100644
--- a/tools/perf/util/tool_pmu.c
+++ b/tools/perf/util/tool_pmu.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
#include <api/io.h>
#include <internal/threadmap.h>
#include <perf/threadmap.h>
+#include <elf.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
#include <strings.h>

@@ -718,6 +719,6 @@ struct perf_pmu *tool_pmu__new(void)
perf_pmu__delete(tool);
return NULL;
}
- tool->events_table = find_core_events_table("common", "common");
+ tool->events_table = find_core_events_table(EM_NONE, "common");
return tool;
}
--
2.56.0.385.gac671c819a-goog